Let’s face it, marketing can be hard! In each marketing blog post, we hope you’ll find the information you need for your business marketing success.
The Fascinating Dynamics of Strategic Product Placement
In the fiercely competitive world of retail, capturing consumers’ attention and enticing them to make purchases is a constant challenge. One powerful tool store owners have at their disposal is strategic product placement. By carefully positioning products and leveraging price promotions, you can create a domino effect that influences consumer behavior and drives sales. The…
A Guide to Help Small Businesses Create a Great Annual Marketing Plan
A great marketing plan is important for many small businesses to be successful. There are multiple parts to creating an effective marketing plan, which is why small businesses have to figure out what they would like to accomplish. With that being said, here is a guide to help small businesses develop a great annual marketing…
Promotional Calendar Template [VIDEO]
Promotional Calendar Template Transcription Hi, I’m Tisha Oehmen from Paradux Media Group, and I thought it might be something fun today to mix things up, if I did a Google hangout rather than just typing into the blog post. I wanted to talk specifically about a promotional marketing calendar and why it’s something that you…
IT Security: Disaster Plans for Businesses (for CEOS and Managers)
Business News Daily recently reported that each year, thirty percent of all servers will fail due to unpredictable events such as natural disasters or system outages. Down time due to information technology failure costs businesses over $26 billion and 127 million hours of work-time each year, and additionally, results in a 29 percent revenue loss. Cloud…
Approaches to Brand Architecture
Let’s talk for a few minutes about brand and brand architecture. Brand, as we know, is a term which refers to all the externally and internally focused language, position, and imagery for a given company. At its core, a company’s brand is its reputation. How much leverage a company gets from their brand is largely…
How a Creative Ad Agency Can Save You Time and Money
I don’t think that there is anyone in business today that isn’t interested in saving both time and money. Yet many small business and mid-sized businesses miss one of the single best methods for saving time and money when they fail to work with a creative ad agency. There are lots of reasons that go into…
Marketing Budget Template
It is imperative that a business proactively set a marketing budget for their business. The reason is simple, if you don’t set a budget and make a plan, you will instead make a series of small, and at the time, inconsequential choices to promote your business that are both costly and ineffective. At the end of…
Strategic Marketing Vision
Marketing is one of those tricky fields. It bridges the gap between strategy and execution. It’s equally at home either in the Boardroom as an outgrowth of strategy, as it is in the Human Resources Suite, as a compliment to internal culture, and of course, in the Business Development group as a business acquisition plan. Strategic Marketing…
5 Things You Must Do as a Brand Manager
Being a Brand Manager in today’s world isn’t easy. But it’s one of the most important jobs that exists in the Marketing Department — if not the Company. The reason is, the Brand Manager is the first and last line of defense for the brand. To successfully fulfill your duties as Brand Manager, these are…
Marketing Techniques for Brand Creation
In today’s world, a brand is created through the careful execution of marketing techniques. Those marketing techniques incorporate both online and offline tactics designed to increase word of mouth, reputation, and buzz. Right now, we are about to enter the season where many of the national brands execute marketing techniques they have been planning and strategizing for…
3 Questions to Ask for Marketing Success
Internal politics are often the bane of any Marketing Manager’s existence. There is always a strong undercurrent at most marketing conferences where Marketing Managers try to figure out how to get a “seat at the table”. If you are in that category — you need to read Nirmalya Kumar’s book, Marketing as Strategy. It attacks the marketing framework from…
Annual Strategic Marketing Plan Template
Ever look around madly for the ideal Annual Strategic Marketing Plan Template? I know I have — more times than I care to admit. Some are too involved for most companies (literally, there are 625 page books written on the topic). Others worry more about tactics than strategies. Some forget the most important part —…
Trends for Marketing in 2020
It’s hard as marketers to get far enough out of the day to day to observe trends materializing to influence our ability to do our jobs, much less think about marketing in 2020. But the difficulty not withstanding, the future of our brands depends on it. As often as possible, we must get out of…
The One Marketing Tool You Can’t Afford to Live Without-the Marketing Calendar
Marketing is equal parts science and art. It’s about being nimble enough to take advantage of opportunities that present themselves. And most of all, great marketing is about planning. There are many tools available to aid your planning, but hands down, no question about the very, very best marketing tool you can’t afford to live without is…a…